In the Name of Science?: P. J. W. Debye and His Career in Nazi Germany: A History of Secret Programs, Medical Research, and Human Experimentation (Studies of the Netherlands Institute for War, Band 2) - Softcover

Name: In the Name of Science?: P. J. W. Debye and His Career in Nazi Germany: A History of Secret Programs, Medical Research, and Human Experimentation (Studies of the Netherlands Institute for War, Band 2)
Author: Eickhoff, Martijn
ISBN: 9789052603278

Eickhoff, Martijn

9789052603278: In the Name of Science?: P. J. W. Debye and His Career in Nazi Germany: A History of Secret Programs, Medical Research, and Human Experimentation (Studies of the Netherlands Institute for War, Band 2)

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ISBN 10: 9052603278 ISBN 13: 9789052603278

Verlag: AKSANT ACADEMIC PUBL, 2009

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This volume describes and analyses the highly successful careerof the Dutch physicist and Nobel prize winner P.J.W. Debye (1884-1966) in the Third Reich. The book sketches the life of a man wholived for science, but at the same time maintained close contactswith influential officials, industrialists and sometimes even politicians.In this context Debye declined to respond in public to thetreatment of Jews in society in general and in science in particular,even after his migration to the United States in 1940. By combininga biographical perspective with network analysis and researchon contemporary moral assessments, this book sheds new anddisturbing light on Debyes socio-political worldview and hisinvolvement in the Aryanization of German science.

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Dr Martijn Eickhoff (1967) is a historian who has published widely on the role and position of academics in the Third Reich. He is a researcher at the Netherlands Institute for War Documentation (NIOD) in Amsterdam and a lecturer in cultural history at the Radboud University of Nijmegen.

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'In the name of science? - P.J.W. Debye and his career in Nazi Germany' describes and analyses the highly successful career of the Dutch physicist and Nobel prize winner P.J.W. Debye (1884-1966) in the Third Reich.

The book sketches the life of a man who lived for science, but at the same time maintained close contacts with influential officials, industrialists and sometimes even politicians. In this context Debye declined to respond in public to the treatment of Jews in society in general and in science in particular, even after his migration to the United States in 1940.

By combining a biographical perspective with network analysis and research on contemporary moral assessments, this book sheds new and disturbing light on Debye's socio-political worldview and his involvement in the Aryanisation of German science

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